Opinion Journal: Republican Ascendancy?

OpinionJournal.com columnist John Fund on what to expect from the GOP if they win in November.

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... joining us ... Jones columnist ... John frontally Welcome John thanks Jason ... so ... the Democrats are still reeling from his comments by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs over a week ago ... basically stating the obvious which is that ... I will show the Democrats to be in trouble and there's a chance they could lose the house and in November so what's the big dig up ... remember the House Democrats were ... most upset but not just for stating the obvious that they're in trouble ... but that didn't said well I guess the prospects for the Democrats are up to whether or not Democrats are one big campaigns ... the mini these numbers in the red for the Obama White House suggests very tough road some healthier ... cap and trade ... of things like human items sold ... all of these votes are not coming back to haunt the Obama White House because ... the proven to be much more unpopular than people expected ... in the Obama was having the standoff ish approach without you a get reelected ... oh that's okay ... the Alcon bid on Republicans ... to put forth ... an agenda ... what if and when they do ... when the house without there was some talk ... about ... on the Sunday talk shows this weekend ... about how the Republicans being only able to articulate what they would do if they gained power ... I mean should they Take that they ... are are sure they know they can wait and see approach on about what their agenda would be if they do take that ... I think that is both a different stop ... obviously people are not paying close attention to the elections because it's summer ... so sometime in the delayed September I think you're going to see the House Republicans men to a lesser Tampa Senate Republicans ... come forward with some general principles and some specifics ... on what a Republican control of the house or Senate might mean ... about John Beyer of the House Republican leaders said there should be a one-year moratorium on new federal regulations ... because there's too much uncertainty in the economy and that's ... holding done job creation ... Senate Republicans I think are also going to have ... some interesting proposals about extending the tax cuts that are expiring in December thirty first ... because that could mean an enormous tax increase which will also read our job creation ... of ... OPEC ... what about the outlook for the GOP establishment ... they can't help but instead of Trent Lott recently made some comments about ... the former ... majority leader in the Senate ... made some comments recently about the tea party movement ... and about other types of of of Republicans they might help ... send to Congress ... op ... they can be on board here ... listen I'll remember that one of the reasons why the tea party this is because people are emitted from both local parties they were not happy with Republicans would meet ... when Congress under Bush ... they're not happy with Obama now ... of the largest political party America the people who say I know what haven't you do with Democrats or Republicans or independents ... Trent Lott who is a senior former Republican majority leader ... says ... well ... we don't want the steep forty people the Senate we don't need more gem demands ... that come let's hope we can lock them as quickly as possible ... that is like waving a red flag in front of Tea Party people because that's precisely what makes them angry about Washington ... the two of the screws in bipartisan ... structure ... of the established believes that this week cuts deals things like China and bailouts for banks and corporations ... and blues up the American people go ... on to comply with the Metsos was the top by managing these polls which would show ... Democrats in trouble because holes ... don't necessarily show rising popularity for the Republicans ... it should decline in popularity ... for the Democrats as they're concerned ... that Republican so think those are opposed to automatically ... Slingers to the leak ... was certainly a possibility of complacency ... brought ... on ... by your total system re basically only two major political parties non political parties to complete charge the government ... has a bad economy to consider deporting ... benefit ... the real reason why think Republicans have to have a positive agenda for the fall from interstate as ... that ... I mentioned before the Contrave of America didn't move a lot of folks ... but it provided a framework to discipline for what they were going to do once they took over Congress ... and I think if Republicans ... don't have some kind of discipline or framework that could be endless ... and likely ... Bob trumped by Obama who obviously try to move the center if it suffers the real defeat in November ... well thank you very much for joining us now ...